We've also taken one of the walking tours in Barcelona that
Doug
recommended (http://www.myft.net/MyFT_HTML/index.html). As I
recall,
the fees were 30 Euros a person for a four-hour walking tour,
which
included a surcharge because there were only three of us on
the tour.
We selected the tour of ateliers (or talleres), and were delighted
that we ended up having the tour guide to ourselves (my husband
and
I, and our 27-year-old son). Our guide took us to visit with
various
craftpeople in the Barrio Gotico, giving us a tour of the buildings
we passed along the way. We were not pressured to buy from the
craftspeople, and learned much about the art of jewelry making,
silk
screening, and furniture refinishing. We ended the tour having
a
drink with her at a tiny cheese store run by a Welsh woman who
specializes in farmhouse cheeses from the Spanish countryside.